Well I'd be the one that she'd be calling into. In stormy weather
(Augusta is 65 miles away) it's VERY hard to hear the repeater, and I
sure wish they would raise the antenna another 50 feet and double the
power!
> "Gregory S. Williams" wrote:
> >
> > Well this is news to a great many HAMs who are on several SKYWARN mailing
> > lists. Looks like these multitudes of HAMs who voted on this never
> > bothered to fill any EC's in.
Well I think it was a very SMALL handfull of hams that came up with
this scheme.
> > I sure as heck havent heard anyhting about it until recently. I knew
> > several areas were going to 147.420 simplex to coincide with Red Cross lo
> > band (47.42) but this is a first for me...and a *LOT* of others.
> > Greg
I haven't heard about this either. BUT I digress....
> > At 01:33 AM 6/8/99 -0000, Jason Breakiron wrote:
> > >For those of you who are Spotters and are HAM Radio operators or if you
> > >have a scanner: There is a new frequency set up for spotters/chasers/HAM
> > >Radio Operators to share weather information during severe weather. The new
> > >frequency is: 146.550 It will be used all over the nation. for more
> > >information go to: http://www.hamsnet.net/kc5trr/simplex.htm This New
> > >frequency was created by Steve Miller KC5TRR, My administrator partner in
> > >Chasers digest. It was created so that everyone across the country could
> > >report severe weather
It's my idea that this was the[ NOT DALLAS TX ] Steve Miller's idea.
Jason got rather [and deservedly so] flamed for this in WX-CHASE. He
claimed the old frequency was 146.52 which is the NATIONAL simplex
frequency. Nope. NOPE N O P E!! It would be OK to call and move off
to a simplex frequency of your choice, but don't bother ME at the
NWS when I'm on 2 radios (maybe my on HT on another local repeater)
and get me to go simplex when you can give it to me on a repeater. I
could miss something important. Now if lets say John wants to ask
Bill something and not tie up the repeater they can ask net control
to let them go to a simplex frequency for a short while so as not to
tie up the net for more important stuff. I just think it was someone
wanting themselves to be deemed important. Even in SC running a
Skywarn net can be baptism by fire. Ask the Augusta Folks....
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